Property24 Listing Watcher — all of South Africa

What does Property24 Listing Watch do?

It monitors Property24 — South Africa's biggest property portal — nationally: pick whole provinces (or all for the entire country), choose for-sale or to-rent, and get every listing as structured JSON with numeric ZAR price, suburb, address, a stable listing number, and canonical URL. Results are deduplicated per run and paginated automatically; large metros are discovered and drilled into on the fly. Schedule it on Apify and diff runs to catch new listings and price changes within minutes.

Why use it?

• Buyers & investors: watch entire provinces, not one suburb — be first to view.
• Agents & analysts: track competitor inventory and asking-price movement across regions.
• Proptech products: one clean national ZA listings feed, no scraper to maintain.

How to use it

1. Pick provinces (["all"] covers the whole country) and the listing type — or paste any filtered Property24 search URL for surgical watching.
2. Set maxItems to control run size and cost.
3. Run or schedule; export the dataset (JSON/CSV/Excel) or read it via the API.

Input

{
  "provinces": ["gauteng", "western-cape"],
  "listingType": "for-sale",
  "maxPagesPerArea": 3,
  "maxItems": 500
}

provinces accepts: gauteng, western-cape, kwazulu-natal, eastern-cape, free-state, mpumalanga, north-west, northern-cape, limpopo, or all. searchUrls (optional) adds any filtered searches you paste.

Output

{
  "source": "property24",
  "listingType": "for-sale",
  "listingNumber": "117317571",
  "title": "3 Bedroom House",
  "url": "https://www.property24.com/for-sale/retreat/cape-town/western-cape/9034/117317571",
  "price": 1100000,
  "priceText": "R 1 100 000",
  "location": "Retreat",
  "address": "8 Minorca Avenue",
  "size": "3 2 2",
  "isDevelopment": false,
  "isBoosted": false,
  "searchUrl": "https://www.property24.com/for-sale/cape-town/western-cape/432",
  "page": 1,
  "collectedAt": "2026-07-26T08:00:00.000Z"
}

Field	Meaning
price	Numeric asking price (ZAR); priceText keeps display form (e.g. "POA")
listingNumber	Property24's stable id — use it to diff runs for new stock
isDevelopment / isBoosted	Flags promoted and new-development tiles so you can filter them
page / searchUrl	Where in the crawl the listing was found

Automate it: Tasks + scheduling (recommended)

New stock moves fast — a schedule is what makes this actor pay for itself:

1. Click Create task and save your input (your provinces or pasted search URLs).
2. In the task's Schedule tab pick a cadence — hourly for a hot suburb, daily for province-wide sweeps.
3. Diff runs on listingNumber to isolate new listings only (each run's dataset is kept in history).
4. Wire the Integrations tab to email/Slack/webhooks so new-listing alerts reach you before the show day.

Pro pattern: one task per hunting ground — "cape-town-rentals", "gauteng-under-1.5m" — each scheduled and each feeding its own alert channel.

Pricing & cost control

Pay-per-event: a small flat fee per run plus a fraction of a cent per listing. maxItems is a hard cap on results and therefore on your spend per run — a 500-listing national sweep costs about $0.26.

Disclaimers & support

Collects only publicly listed property data (no login; no personal data beyond what sellers publish). Respect Property24's terms when redistributing. Layout changes are monitored and fixed as production incidents — report anything odd via the Issues tab (answered within the Apify 14-day SLA).